As time and memory...

Back Again... I have always loved this sentiment and felt this was the perfect design to showcase it. 

My Challenges:

Happy Little Stampers Sketch Challenge - Sketch

The Card Concept - Thinking of you card with soft colours and flowers. I chose to go with a CAS design.

Stampin' Royalty - Embossing

All Sorts Challenge - Spring Flowers

Little Tangles - Anything Goes

My Card:

Take the time to let your creativity bloom!

Card Recipe

Card Stock: Whisper White
Inks: Pear Pizzazz, Basic Black & Versamark
Stamps: Bloom with Hope & Everything Eleanor
Embellishments: Pool Party, Blushing Bride & Crushed Curry Embossing Powders 
Tools: Embossing Buddy, Heat Tool & Paper Snips

Happy, Happy Birthday to YOU!

Happy Monday All!

Here is a little card I created last night before bed... :)

My Challenges:

Fusion Challenge - Sketch

The Colour Throwdown - Colour Combination

Seize the Birthday - Masculine, Birthday Card

Just Us Girls - Masculine Theme

Little Tangles - Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge - Sponging

My Card:

Take the time to let your creativity bloom!

Card Recipe

Card Stock: Whisper White, Maritime DSP & Irresistibly Yours DSP
Inks: Crumb Cake, Coastal Cabana, Night of Navy, Real Red & Early Espresso
Stamps: Open Sea & Amazing Birthday
Embellishments: n/a
Tools: Stars Collection Framelits Die & Stampin' Sponge

More Peanut...!

Each week at Colour Me...! we will have a creative colour challenge for you to get crafty and show us your best greeting cards, 3D projects, scrapbooking, digital or traditional paper crafts, costumes, etc. Only the colours we indicate may be used for your project. Neutrals such as black, gray, white, vanilla, skin colours and kraft are also welcome.

This week we are using...! Have fun :)

Our challenge ends on Mondays at 12:00 pm (EST). We have a few rules to keep things fun and fair!

• Any type of paper crafty projects are welcome - greeting cards, 3D projects, scrapbooking, digital or traditional paper crafts, costumes, if it's craft we want to see it!
• We ask that you only use the colours listed for your project and of course neutrals are always welcome.
• Feel free to combine us with up to 3 challenges (including ours), with the exception of other colour challenges.
• Please add our graphic to your blog with a link back to us. 
• We reserve the right to remove any links if we feel any material submitted is offensive or found to be in poor taste, we are all here to have a good time!
• HAVE FUN!!!

We would like to welcome Joyce to the team for the month of March! Looking forward to seeing the FABulous projects you have to share with us all :)

I am also entering this page in the challenge over at MDS Monday...

My Card:

Take the time to let your creativity bloom!

Project created with Stampin' UP!s My Digital Studio Software

Punches
    Basics\1.25 Square Punch, Fill Color = TANGELO TWIST 241,114,34
    Basics\1.25 Square Punch, Fill Color = 230,WATERMARK 255,255,255
    Basics\1.25 Square Punch,  Filled with: Designer Series Paper\Grid\Kraft Grid
    Basics\1.25 Square Punch,  Filled with: Designer Series Paper\Script\Pumpkin Pie Script
    Borders\Dotted Scallop Ribbon Punch, Fill Color = TANGELO TWIST 241,114,34

Photos
    C:\Users\MarkandHayley\Desktop\Hayley Kew's Folder\Stampin' UP! Blog\MDS\20150213_165553
    C:\Users\MarkandHayley\Desktop\Hayley Kew's Folder\Stampin' UP! Blog\MDS\IMG_9343
    C:\Users\MarkandHayley\Desktop\Hayley Kew's Folder\Stampin' UP! Blog\MDS\20150215_114604
    C:\Users\MarkandHayley\Desktop\Hayley Kew's Folder\Stampin' UP! Blog\MDS\hayley white

While you are surfing around in blog land why not stop by and say hello to the rest of the Colour Me...! Team :)

Angel Johns

Jenny Engelke

Julia Wilson

Katie Brooks

Sandy Mathis

Tanja Kabel

Tara Bourgoin

And our FABulous Featured Guest Designer for the month of March

Joyce Mehrberg

my friend

Each week at Addicted to Stamps and More we have a fun challenge to help bring out your creativity! This week we have our Clean & Simple Challenge going on!!! So break out your supplies, get creative and show us what you got :)

This week we are being sponsored by talented Designers over at Inspired by Stamping. You should really pop over and check out the fabulous images they have to share. We always have so much fun working with their delightful digitals!

Our challenges are not restricted to cards. You may make cards, scrapbook layouts, tags etc. 

To keep it fun for everyone we have a few rules:

• Please make sure to link back to the POST your entry is contained in NOT your whole blog
• Please mention Addicted to Stamps and More! in your blog with a link back to the challenge so others may join in
• Please do not backlink - all entries must be new
• You may combine up to 10 challenges in TOTAL 
• You may enter more than once provided each entry is different and abides with the rules of the challenge
• Please turn off Word Verification for ease of commenting on your blog :)
• We reserve the right to remove any links that do not comply with the Challenge rules. If any material submitted is offensive or found to be in poor taste, it will be at the discretion of the blog owner to remove these entries.

My Card:

Take the time to let your creativity bloom!

Card Recipe

Card Stock: Whisper White
Inks: Mossy Meadow, Tuxedo Black, Wild Wasabi Blendabilities & Melon Mambo Blendabilities
Stamps: Everything Eleanor, And Many More & Blended Bloom
Embellishments: n/a
Tools: n/a


Would love for you to stop by and say hello to the rest of the team! 

Anita Bowden / Barb Ghig / Carol Mayne / Cornelia Wenokor / Dana Warren / Deborah Frings / Julie Beech / Karen Mead / Kylie Purtell - Blog Creator! / Lee-Anne Cross / Rahmat Gouse / Sandie Munro / Sarah Platt / Shona Chambers / Sue Blamey / Tanja Kabel / Tenia Nelson / Vicki Parson / Wei Wei Wang

A Sunday Evening of Stamping...!

Brace yourself ya'll! This is going to be a big one :) I needed to go to my happy place and so I did... My Craft Room with one of my besties!!!

And of course you know I played along with a challenge or two...

Card #1 was created for the following - 

Muse: Sketch, Hearts, Clean White Space

Create with Connie & Mary: Colour Combination

Card #2 was created for the following -

Freshly Made Sketches: Sketch

The Card Concept: Clean & Layered "Get Well"

Card #3 was created for the following -

Curtain Call: St. Patty's Day Theme

Just Us Girls: St. Patty's Day Theme

Card #3 was created for the following -

Just Add Ink: Sketch

My Cards:

Take the time to let your creativity bloom!

Card #1 Recipe

Card Stock: Whisper White
Inks: Blackberry Bliss, Rose Red & Blushing Bride
Stamps: Work of Art & Feel Goods (retired)
Embellishments: n/a
Tools: Owl Builder Punch

Card #2 Recipe

Card Stock: Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Crushed Curry, Birthday Bash Specialty DSP, Confetti Celebration DSP, Sweet Taffy DSP & Subltes DSP Stack
Inks: Bermuda Bay
Stamps: A Dozen Thoughts
Embellishments: 1/4" Polyester Crushed Curry Ribbon (SAB)
Tools: Hexagon Punch

Card #3 Recipe

Card Stock: Garden Green, Whisper White, Adventure Abound DSP Stack, Confetti Celebration DSP, Sweet Taffy & Subltes DSP Stack
Inks: Always Artichoke & Sahara Sand
Stamps: Happy Hour & Gorgeous Grunge
Embellishments: Gold Sequin Trim, Regal Candy Dot & 1/8" Old Olive Taffeta Ribbon
Tools: Hearts a Flutter Framelit Die, Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder, Bird Builder Punch & Angled Tag Topper Punch

Card #4 Recipe

Card Stock: Coastal Cabana, Soft Suede, Crushed Curry, Calypso Coral & Best Year Ever DSP
Inks: Soft Suede
Stamps: Feel Goods (retired)
Embellishments: n/a
Tools: n/a

Crisp, Clean, Beachy, Birthday Wish!

Hope you are all having a nice weekend. Here is a card I created last night while crafting with a lovely friend of mine :)

I played along with a few challenges... 

Pals Paper Arts: Sketch

Little Red Wagon: Beach Theme

Seize the Birthday: Birthday Card

My Card:

Take the time to let your creativity bloom!

Card Recipe

Card Stock: Whisper White

Inks: Crisp Cantaloupe, Crumb Cake, Pistachio Pudding, Smokey Slate & Soft Sky

Stamps: By the Tide, By the Sea Shore, Simply Wonderful & Bloom with Hope

Embellishments: n/a

Tools: n/a

Technique: Masking

Spring Flowers, I NEED SPRING FLOWERS :)

Hope you are all having a nice week... I have been not spending much time in my craft room lately, work has been busy lately!

I did however sneak away this evening and created 3 cards which I will be sharing with my Stampers Club later on this week... You will see a common theme, I NEEED SOME SPRING IN MY LIFE!!!


Card #1 was created for the following challenges:

CAS(E) This Sketch - sketch

The Colour Throwdown - colour combination

Card #2 was created for the following challenges:

Fab Friday - sketch

Stampin' Royalty - colour combination

Card #3 was created for the following challenges:

The Paper Players - sketch

ColourQ - colour combination

My Cards:

Take the time to let your creativity bloom!

Card Recipe #1

Card Stock: Crumb Cake, Whisper White & Irresistibly Yours DSP
Inks: Tuxedo Black, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Rose Red, Old Olive Blendabilities, Melon Mambo Blendabilities & Pink Pirouette Blendabilities
Stamps: Butterfly Basics
Embellishments: n/a
Tools: Apothecary Framelit Die, Scallop Oval Punch & Stampin' Sponge

Card Recipe #2

Card Stock: Pear Pizzazz, Whisper White, Always Artichoke & Irresistibly Yours DSP
Inks: Calypso Coral, Crisp Cantaloupe, Pear Pizzazz & Early Espresso
Stamps: Lotus Blossom
Embellishments: Calypso Coral 3/4" Chevron Ribbon
Tools: 2 1/2" Circle Punch, Circles Collection Framelit Die, Dots Decorative Mask & Stampin' Sponge

Card Recipe #3

Card Stock: Whisper White & Irresistibly Yours DSP
Inks: Tuxedo Black, Crisp Cantaloupe, Coastal Cabana, Wisteria Wonder Blendabilities & Wild Wasabi Blendabilities
Stamps: Love is Kindness & A Dozen Thoughts
Embellishments: Linen Thread
Tools: 2 1/2" Circle Punch, Stampin' Sponge & Paper Snips